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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A very common European toad, Bufo calamita, belonging to the family Bufonidæ. Its color is light-yellowish, inclining to brown, and clouded with dull olive, and it has a bright-yellow line running along the middle of the back. It does not leap or crawl with the slow pace of the common toad, but its motion is more like running, whence it has also the name of walking toad or running toad. It has a deep, hollow voice, which may be heard at a considerable distance.

Wiktionary

  1. n. a toad of species Bufo calamita (or Epidalea calamita), known for its running lizard-like gait and very loud mating call.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Zoöl.) A European toad (Bufo calamita), having a yellow line along its back.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. common brownish-yellow short-legged toad of western Europe; runs rather than hops

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  • chained_bear "Sometimes he went driving with Diana but ... her concentration on speed distressed him. Natterjacks were common in no part of the world—and now on one drive he had been swept past four."
    --P. O'Brian, The Yellow Admiral, 48 Mar 18, 2008

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